J.L.Clayton Quotes

I feel like you've got to go through some things in order to get somewhere. He [GOD] took me through nearly seven years of hell, but allowed me to grow and mature into a man and true professional.

I'm a believer in The Word, which says "God moves mountains."

It's just that with football, when you don't get the ball, you can't show your talents and that's always been something in the back of my mind.

We're all blessed, and we need to always thank GOD for those blessings.

Talking about football on TV is something I can do with my eyes closed.

Being a down-to-earth type of individual, I feel like I can connect with people on a different level, versus the GOD-like pedestal that people tend to put us on.

I always thought that the way to believe more deeply was to surround myself with other Christians. After all, isn't that the traditional tool for religious socialization?

Helen's books were her friends, "the kind you invite for dinner in the middle of winter, " she'd told him, " and spend all night talking and never go to bed.

It is hard to overestimate the power of these motivators—the feelings of accomplishment and of learning, of being a key player on a team that is achieving something meaningful.

These are what Herzberg’s research calls motivators. Motivation factors include challenging work, recognition, responsibility, and personal growth.

Mincemeat is decidedly British in its nature and can therefore be disregarded entirely where most civilized palates are concerned.

I try to make my comments like a woman's skirt: long enough to be respectable and short enough to be interesting.

...the state of Virginia had turned down twenty-one thousand women for admission to state colleges in 1970 while not turning away a single man...

I imagine music sitting in a chair across from me saying "and how does that make you feel?".

Healthy boys grow into healthy men.

According to most studies on the subject, boys who grow up without fathers grow up at a disadvantage.

Teaching a boy to be a man is the primary job of a father.

There’s a wound most troubled boys share, which, at its core, comes from the feeling that they don’t have their father’s unconditional love.

When a boy feels as if no one cares about him, or as if he will never amount to anything, he truly believes it doesn’t matter what he does.

Despite what you might believe right now, your son’s future is bright. You only need the right tools to help him get there.

It’s time to stop dreaming about who you want your son to be and help him become the healthy, happy, and successful man he’s supposed to be.

Healing, it turns out, is a journey. It doesn’t happen all at once.

Her scream of utter horror and fright was a sound that no one in the chamber would ever forget.~Crispin.~

An unhappy ending makes it literature rather than romantic fiction.

Nothing mitigates the throes of depression like a steaming plate of spaghetti and meatballs with marinara sauce and grated parmasan cheese, with a good fresh bread to wipe up.

You're the girl from the song- the girl with kaleidoscope eyes.

Disruption is, at its core, a really powerful idea.

Excuses can be your servant, but you must never become their slave.

A Pioneer is one that goes that extra mile...and then a little further.

Just what I predicted, ” he smiled. “Run, little sheep. Run. For soon, the big bad wolf will have you right where you belong, ” Crispin whispered as he manifested out of the school.~Crispin~

He was everything I’d ever wanted, and everything I hadn’t even known I needed.

Unfortunately, we spend more time teaching our daughters how to avoid becoming rape victims than teaching our sons not to become rapists.

Silence is a deadly weapon

My knight, ” I said jokingly before I had a chance to stop myself. Too late I realized. ~Charlie~

you have to come of age when it's your time. If you try to rush it or put it off, it only gets you into trouble.

I agree with you. Everyone gets lonely sometimes.

Don't be ungrateful. Just open it.

No idea for a new growth business ever comes fully shaped. When it emerges, it's half-baked, and it then goes through a process of becoming fully shaped.

The breakthrough innovations come when the tension is greatest and the resources are most limited. That's when people are actually a lot more open to rethinking the fundamental way they do business.

The dumb-manager theory of business problems just didn't hold water for me. There had to be a deeper reason why smart people would make decisions that lead to failure.

Christmas is the antithesis of Thanksgiving. Christmas is pretty much a man-made holiday.

The single most important factor in our long-term happiness is the relationships we have with our family and close friends.

I got put out of my church choir because my pastor said, 'We can't have baby sister singing the blues and coming in here and singing on Sunday morning.'

As a general rule, when a new industry takes root, and the first products emerge in a wave, almost always the architecture of the product will be proprietary and interdependent in character.

All holidays can be good times.

Things happen to us in unpredictable ways, but the effect that that has on the kind of people who we become actually is not only open to chance - we can influence it in pretty profound ways.

There was no instruction to be thankful that the Christians were special people, chosen people. There was no nationalistic, political or ethnic superiority to be thankful for.

American capitalists, enthralled by the doctrines of finance, have put their income statements in service of the balance sheet.

A major driver of the cost of healthcare in the United States is a compromise that was reached with the American Medical Association in the 1960s when Medicare was first established.

Thanksgiving is a season that is very much in accord with the themes and teachings of Jesus Christ.